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* [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO
@ 2022-08-09 22:18 Douglas McIlroy
  2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
  2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2022-08-09 22:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> I've always believed that pic was so well designed
> because it took a day to get the print out (back then),

I'm afraid this belief is urban legend. Credit for pic is due 100% to
Kernighan, not to the contemporary pace of computing practice.

Even in the 1950s, we had one-hour turnaround at Bell Labs. And the
leap from batch processing had happened well before pic. Turnaround on
modest Unix source files and tests has changed little in the past
fifty years.

Doug

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2022-08-09 22:18 [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO Douglas McIlroy
2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:14   ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 17:37     ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:44       ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO [ really pic ] Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:02         ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 18:04           ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:13             ` [TUHS] Re: pic Michael Kjörling
2022-08-10 18:19             ` Dennis Boone
2022-08-10 18:24               ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-11  0:10                 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-11 12:13                   ` arnold
2022-08-11 14:34                     ` Dan Cross
2022-08-12  1:52                       ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-12  6:46                         ` arnold
2022-08-12 20:49                           ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-11  7:37           ` [TUHS] Re: pic's One-way Information Flow. (Was: SNOBOL and RATSNO) Ralph Corderoy
2022-08-10 18:24       ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO joe mcguckin

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